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BROCHURE 

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INFORMflTION AND EXERCISES 

FUK USE IN 
CONTAINING 

Kansas History, Kansas Geography, 

Kansas Poems, Kansas Songs. 

and Kansas Politics, 

TOQBTHBR WITH EXCERPTS FROM 

The State Constitution. 

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By L. G. a. Copley, A. M., 

Author of " Kansas Day " in the Educationitst. 



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In the fall of l87tt I found that ray class in United States His- P 
tory then studving the Revolutionary War were much more t 
interested in the lesson if they happened to study an event ou t 
the annivert<ary of its occurrence. This led me to think that p 
many facts conceruinir Kansas might be more deeply impressed ^ 
by studying them on January 29th. the anniversary of the adrais- ^ 
sion of 'the Stat*-. Accordingly on January 29th, 1877 an hour ^ 
was set apart for a Kansas exercise. It was repeated in 1878 in t 
PhoIh. and for thiee successive years in the Wichita Schools un- p 
der my supervision. In 1881 at the request of Dr. G. W. Hoss. I p 
wrote a short article for his journal, the Educationist, sugtresting ^ 
that Kansas Day be tried in other schools. The article in whole ^ 
or in part whs copied into many papers of the state. Teachers at r 
once caught the idea and in 1881 was the lirst general celebration F 
of Kansas Day in Kansas schools. Topeka. Lawrenve. Emporia, r 
Wichita. Port Scott and many smaller places adopted the sutrges- f 
tion and an hour was set apart on that day for studying Kan- t 
Has. Since then it has been a custom with many scho'^ls to cele- t 
brate the admission of Kan^^as with aporopriate exercises. t 

If this little pamphlet shall tidd any interest to these exercis- t 
es. or stimulate in the minds of th« young a love for th« State of t 
which wf all are so justly proud it will hive Hccomplished all t 
designed for It by the author. *- 

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Yeomen strong, hither throng ! 

Nature's honest men; 
We will make the wilderness 

Bud and bloom again. 
Bring the sickle, speed the plow, 

Turn the ready soil ! 
Freedom is the noblest pay 

For the true man^s toil. 

Ho, brothers ! ' Come, brothers ! 

Hasten all with me ; 
We'll sing upon the Kansas plains 

A song of Liberty ! 

Father, haste ! O'er the waste, 

Lies a, pleasant land. 
There your fireside's altar-stones, 

Fixed in truth shall stand. 
There your sons brave and good, 

Shall to freemen grow, 
Clad in triple mail of right. 

Wrong to overthrow. 

Ho, brothers, come brothers, etc. 

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Mother, come ! Here's a home 

In the waiting West ; 
Bring the seeds of love and peace, 

You who sow the best. 
Faithful hearts, holy prayers, 

Keep from taint the air ; 
Soil a mother's tears have wet 

Golden crops shall bear. 

Come, mother ! Fond mother, 

List, we call to thee ; We'll sing, etc. 

Brother brave, stem the wave ! 

Firm the prairies tread. 
Up the dark, Missouri flood. 

Be your canvas spread. 
Sister true, join us too. 

Where the Kansas flows ; 
Let the Northern lily bloom 

With the Southern rose. 

Brave brother. True sister ! 

List, we call to thee, We'll sing, etc. 

One and all, hear our call 

Echo through the land ! 
Aid us with a willing heart, 

And the strong right hand ! 
Feed the spark the Pilgrims struck 

On old Plymouth rock ! 
To the watch-fires of the free 

Millions glad shall flock. 

Ho, brothers ! Come brothers ! ^ 

Hasten all with me ; We'll sing, etc. f 

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Kansas is about 200 miles wide and 400 miles 
^ long. It contains 81,300 square miles. 

It is as large as all New England and 16,000 
: square miles beside. 

It is twice as large as Ohio. 

It is two and a half times the size of Indiana. 

Kansas is one-fourth larger than Missouri, and 
^ nearly one-third larger than Iowa, or Michigan, or 
Illinois. 

Kansas is as large as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 
Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut and Rhode ^ 
Island all put together. 

Kansas is nearly as large as Kentucky and ^ 
Tennessee put together. : 

Kansas is larger than Lake Superior, Lake : 
Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario com- 
bined. 

Kansas lies between 370 and 400 North Lati- 
tude, and between 940, 37' and 1020 West Longi- 
tude. 

Kansas has 104 counties of which 81 are or- 
ganized. Railroads are built in 77 different coun- 
ties of the state. 

Kansas had in July 1882 forty-five different 
hnes of railroad with 3701 miles of track and a ^ 
total valuation of railroad property of $25,088,000 : 
which paid for 1881 into the state treasury taxes : 
amounting to $740,786. 

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T|iu0r$ of '^ausas. 

To remember the rivers of the State easily 
i divide them into two systems, the Kansas system t 
' and the Arkansas system. Each has five rivers. " 
Hold your right hand in front of you with the 
palm toward you. Kansas City is at your elbow ; 
|Topeka, half way to your hand. Your (big) p 
: thu:nb is the Big Blue; your index finger is the ^ 
Repuhl cin, and the three other fingers are the ^ 
three S's, Solomon, SaUne and Smoky Hill. 1 

Put the Arkansas system on the hand in a sim- E 
ilar way. The thumb is the Neosho; the fore- \ 
finger is the Verdegris; the second finger is the "- 
Arkansas; the third, the Salt Fork, and the little ^ 
finger, the Cimarron. : 

The Kansas proper is 150 miles long, all in the \ 
State ; but with its longest tributary is nearly 700 ^ 
^ miles long. The Arkansas is 1,800 miles long, but \ 
^ only 400 miles of it are inside the State. Besides ^ 
^ these, there is the Osage or Marais des Cygnes ^ 
3 flowing East out of the State, mid\vay between the ^ 
^ North and South boundaries. 

This historic river rises in Osage county and 
flows East through Franklin and Miami counties 
into the State of Missouri where it is known as the ^ 
Osage. Ottawa and Osawatomie are on its banks. \ 
The latter town recalls in its name the two streams ^ 
which unite there, the Osage and the Potawatomie. t 
Droj) the last two letters of Osage and the first \ 
\ four letters of Potawatomie and join the two \ 
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State University Lawrence.^ 

State Normal School Emporia. E 

State Agricultural College Manhattan, p 

State Deaf and Duiob Asylum Olathe. | 

State Blind Asylum Wyandotte, fc 

State Insane Asylurr Osawatomie. t 

State Insane Asylum Topeka. ^ 

State Penitentiary.. ... Leavenworth. 

State Reform School Topeka. 

Governor G. W. Glick. 

I Lieutenant Governor D. W. Finney. 

: Secretary of State James Smith. 

^Auditor E. P. McC'abe. 

Treasurer Sam . T. Howe . 

Attorney General W. A. Johnston. 

Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. C. Speer. 

John J. Ingalls, Preston B, Plumb. 

First District.. John A.Anderson. 

Second District Dudley C. Haskell. 

Third District Thomas Ryan. 

At Large S. R. Peters. 

At Large Lewis Hanback. 

At Large E.N.Morrill. 

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I — The first tvhife man in Kansas was Francisco t 

Yasquez de Coronado, in 1542. t 

2--The//"S^ charter including Kansas was given t 

by James I, of England, May 23, 1609. It | 

\*^as the second charier of Virginia. The first ^ 

Virginia charter (1606) inchided the part of 

Kansas South of 38*^ North latitude. 

3- — ' The first mention of Kansas appears on Mar- 

(luette's manuscript 1 \ap, June 10, 1673. 
4- -^Ihe first French cha t^r including Kansas was 
given by Louis to A Athony Crozat, September 
f4, 171 2. 
5 — Tlie first Frenchman in Kansas was M. Du- 

tisne (Duteen), Septon\ber, 17 19. 
6 — Kansas first became ;)\\rt of the United States 
by the l.ouisianaPur'jli.ase,made April 30, 1803. 
7 — The first Arnericar. to explore Kansas was 
Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike in May and June, 1806. 
8 — The first victory for freedom in Kansas was the 
United States law passed March 6, 1820 (Mis- 
souri Compromise). 
9 — The first Santa Fe t-^ain crossed Kansas in the ^ 

summer of 1823. 
10 — The first settlement was made at Fort Leaven- ^ 

worth in 1827. 
II — The fij\'it Missionary on Kansas soil was 
3 Rev. Isaac McCoy, a Baptist minister, in 1828- 1 
^ 1 2 — The first printing press was brought to Kan- 1 
3 sas by Rev. Joseph Meeker, and set up five t 
I miles Noith-east of Ottawa to print Bibles, ^ 

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hymn books and tracts for the Indians in 1834. 
I 13 — The first organization of Kansas as a territory 
. was May 30, 1854 (Kansas-Nebraska Bill). 

14 — The first newspaper printed in Kansas was 
the Leavenworth Herald. The first issue was 
dated September 15, 1854, and was printed 
under an elm tree on Cherokee Street. 

15 — The first Free-lState party was from Massa- 
chusetts, and was led by C. H. Branscomb. 
They founded Lawrence, July 30, 1854. 

16 — The first post-office was estabHshed at Fort 
Leavenworth May 29, 1828. 

17 — ^The first convention of Free State men was 
held in Lawrence August 14, 15, 1855. James 
H. Lane, M. F. Conway, J. K. Goodin, Charles 
Robinson and John Brown, Jr., were members 
of it. 

18 — The first census was taken in February, 1855, 
showing a population of 8,601. 

19 — The first election was held March 30, 1855, 
under proclamation of Gov. Reeder. 

20 — The first railroad was the Elwood & Marys- 
ville. It was built in i860, and the first loco- 
motive, the "Albany," was placed on the track 
April 23. 

1855 8,601 

i860 107,206 

1865 , ii35'8o7 

1870 364.397 

1875 • 53i'i56 

1880 ^ 996,616 

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i BY JOHN G. \VHITTIP:R. 

-i -A-lr — ,A.-a.ld. Xjaiig- Syrte. 

j We cross the prairie as of old 

^ The pilgrims crossed the sea, 

^ To make the West, as they the East 

^ The homestead (jf the free ! 

^ We go to rear a wall of men 

On Freedom's Southern line. 
And plant beside the cotton tree 

The rugged Northern pme. 

We're flowing from our native hills t 

As our free rivers flow ; t 

The blessing of our mother-land ^ 

Is on us as we go. t 

We go to plant her common schools ^ 

On distant prairie swells, ^ 

And give the Sabbaths of the wild ^ 

The music of her bells. ^ 

Upbearing, like the Ark of old t 

The Bible in our van, ^ 

We go to test the truth of God t 

Against the fraud of Man. t 
No pause, nor rest, save where the streams H 

That feed the Kansas run F 

Save where our Pilgrim gonfalon ^ 

Shall flout the setting sun. t 

We'll tread the prairie as of old 

Our fathers sailed the sea. 
And make the West, as they the East, 

The homestead of the free, 
The homestead of the free, my boys, etc. 

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^ Conclusion of a speech by Horace Greeley, ^ 
H May 1 8, 1859, before the Free State Convention. ^ 
^ Freemen of Kansas: I would inspire you with ^. 
^ no unwarranted, no overweening confidence of ^ 
^ success in the great struggle directly before us. I p 
i have passed the age of illusions and no longer ^ 
3 presume a party or cause destined to triumph ^ 
^ merely because I know it should. On the con- F 
^ trary when I consider how vast are the interests t 
3 and influences combined to defeat us — the three ^ 
i thousand millions of property in human flesh and ^ 
^ blood — the subserviency of commerce to this ^ 
great source of custom and profit — the prevalence t 
of Ignorance and selfishness — the many mil- ►: 
lions prodigally lavished by the wielders of Feder- : 
al authority — the lust of office and the prevalence : 
i of corruption. I often regard the struggle of i860 ^ 
i with less of hope than of apprehension. Yet when ^ 
^ I think of the steady diffusion of intelligence— the ^ 
i manifest antagonism between the Slavery exten- ^ 
3 tionists and the interests of free labor — when I F 
j consider how vital and imminent is the necessity ^ 
3 for passage of the free land bill — when I feel how t 
3 the very air of the nineteenth century vibrates to ^ 
^ the pulsations of the great heart of humanity beat- ^ 
1 ing higher and higher with aspirations for univer- ^ 
^ sal freedom, until barbarous Russia is intent on ^ 
^ striking off the shackles of her fettered millions I t 
3 cannot repress the hope that we are on the eve of ^ 
i a grand bentficent victory. But whtther destined ^ 

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to be waved in triumph over our next great battie- ^ 
field, or trodden into its mire through our defeat, 1 1 
entreat you to keep the Republican flag flying in ^ 
Kansas so long as one man can anywhere be ral- ^ 
^ lied to defend it. Defile not the glorious dust off 
^ the martyred dead whose freshly grassed graves lie t 
i thickly around us, l)y trailing that flag in dishonor t 
3 or folding it in cowardly despair on this soil so 
^ lately reddened by their patriotic blood. If it be 
3 destined in the providence of God to go down, let 
A the sunlight which falls lovingly upon their graves 
^ catch the last defiant wave of its folds in the free p 
i breeze which sweeps over these prairies. Let it t 
3 be burned, not surrendered, when no one remains I 
A to uphold it ; and let its ashes rest forever with : 
^ theirs by the banks of the Marais des Cygnes. 

i proton of ©sKuraiomfe* 

BY JOHN G. WHITTIER. 

John Brown, of Osawatomie, spake on his dying 
i day : t 

^ " I will not have to shrive my soul, a priest in f 
3 Slavery's pay. ^ 

^ But let some poor slave-mother whom I have t 
^ striven to free, t 

^ With her children, from the gallows-stair put ujj a p 
3 praver for me I'' ^ 

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^ John Brown, of Osawatomie, they led him out to ^ 
\ die ; r 

^ And lo ! a poor slave-mother with her little child ^ 

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^ Then the bold, blue-eye grew tender, and the old f 
^ harsh face grew mild, | 

3 As he stooped between the jeering ranks and | 
^ kissed the negro's child ! t 

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^ The shadows of his stormy life that moment fell t 
3 apart; | 

^ And they who blamed the bloody hand forgave the i. 

loving heart. t 

^ That kiss from all its guilty means redeemed the | 

good intent, 
And 'round the grisly fighter's hair the martyr's 

aureole bent! 

Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil 
good! 

Long live the generous purpose unstained with 
human blood ! 

Not the raid of midnight terror, but the thought 
which underlies ; 

Not the borderer's pride of daring, but the Chris- 
tian's sacrifice. 



Nevermore may yon Blue Ridges the Northern ^ 
rifle hear, ^ 

^ Nor see the light of blazing homes flash on the t- 
negro's spear. F 

3 But let the free-winged angel, Truth, their guarded t 
^ passes scale, t 

A To teach that right is more than might, and justice t 
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3 So vainly shall Virginya set her battle m array; ►: 

^ In vaui her trampling st|uadrons knead the >nnter E 

^ s^now with clay. t 

I She may strike the poimcing eagle^ but she dares ^ 

^ not harm the dove ; t 

^ And every gate she bars to Hate shall open wide f 

^ to Love I r 

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i On the 19th of May, 1858, occurred one of the : 
^ most cold-blooded massacres in Kansas history. ^ 
i A party of about twenty-five men from the vicinity ^ 
i of West Point, Mo., under the leadership of Charles I 
i and L'r, John Hamilton, arrested ten men living ^ 
^ near the trading post in . Linn County, Kansas, t 
^ The men arrested were all in favor of making ^ 
^ Kansas a free State, and this was their crime in ^ 
^ the eyes of their captors. The prisoners when ^ 
^ taken were about their usual vocations. One oft 
^ them, Rev, B. L. Read (from whom I heard the ^ 
A entire story in the summer of 1882), w^as a Bap- ^ 
3 tist i)reacher entirely unarmed and dressed in his ^ 
3 ministerial suit of black broad-cloth and black t 
3 satin vest. I "he prisoners were taken toward Mis- 1 
^ souri till thev reached a ravine in the Marais des I 
3 (Vgnes valley, 'i'here at the bottom of the ravine ^ 
^ the ten prisoners were placed in n row and the ^ 
3 border ruffians shot them down. When all had t 
; fallen they sent one of their number down the B 
■: slope to see if all were dead. One victim had t^ 
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^ the head. After plundering the bodies the Mis- 
d sourians rode off. When they were -out of sight ^ 
i^ and hearing, Elder Read, who, though badly | 
^ wounded, had so well feigned death that he was P 
^ not detected, arose and examined his companions. E 
He found that Stillman, Ross,Colpetzer, Robinson z 
and Campbell were dead. Asa and Wm. Hair- 1 
grove. Hall, Snyder and Elder Read were badly ^ 
:3 wounded. The latter still lives at Osawatomie and t 
^ carries the ounce ball in his back which he re- 
^ ceived on that cruel day. The perpetrators of this 
^ inhuman deed w€re never brought to justice. This 
I massacre was only one of the many unpunished 
^ crimes committed by slavery against freedom in 
I those heroic days. 



BV JOHN G. WHITHER, 



1 A blush as of roses 

I Where rose never grew! 

^ Great drops on the bunch-grass, 

3 But not of the dew ! 

I A taint in the sweet air 

^ For wild bees to shun ! 

^ A stain that shall never 

1 Bleach out in the sun ! 



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Back, steed of the prairies ! 
t Sweet song-bird, fly back I 

^ Wheel hither bald vulture I 

^ Gray wolf call thy pack I t 

The foul human vultures ^ 

Have feasted and fled ; ^ 

The wolves of the Border E 

Have crept from the dead. 

From the hearths of their cabins. 

The fields of their com, 
Unwarned and unweaponed 

The victims were torn, — 
By the whirlwind of murder 

Sw^ooped up and swept on 
To the low, reedy fen-lands. 

The Marsh of the Swan. 

With a vain plea for mercy 

No stout knee was crooked ; 
In the mouths of the rifles 

' Right manly they looked. 
How paled the May sunsh ine, 

O ! Marais du Cygne, 
On death for the strong life 

On red grass for green. 

In the homes of their reiring 

Yet wann with their lives, 
Ye wait the dead only 

Poor children and wives ! 
Put out the red forge-fire, 

The smith shall not come. 
Unyoke the brown oxen, 

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Wind slow from the Swan's Marsh, i 

O dreary death train, 
With pressed Hps as blooaless 

As Hps of the slain ! 
Kiss down the young eye-lids, 

Smooth down the gray hairs ; 
Let tears quench the curses 

That burn through your prayers. 

Strong man of the prairies, 

Mourn bitter and wild ! 
Wail, desolate woman ! 

Weep, fatherless child ! 
But the grain of God springs up 

From ashes beneath, 
And the crown of His harvest . 

Is life out of death. 

Not in vain on the dial 

The shade moves along, 
To point the great contrasts 

Of right and of wrong ; 
Free homes and free altars, 

Free prairie and flood, — 
The reeds of the Swan's Marsh 

Whose bloom is of blood. 

On the lintels of Kansas 

That blood shall not dry; 
Henceforth the bad angel 

Shall harmless go by ; 
Henceforth to the sunset, 

Unchecked on her way 
Shall liberty follow 

The march of the day. 

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Sir, the bill you are about to pass is at once 
A the worst and the best on which Congress ever 
^ acted. Yes sir, the worst and the best at the same 
time. It is the worst bill inasmuch as it is a pres- 
ent victory of slavery. In a Christian land, and an 
^ age of civilization, a time-honored statute of free- 
dom is struck down, opening the way to all the 
countless woes and wrongs of human bondage. 
Among the crimes of history, another is soon to be t 
recorded, which no tears can blot out, and which I 
in better days will be read with universal shame. ^ 
Am I not right then in calling it the worst bill on E 
9 which Congress ever acted ? ^ 

1 There is another side to which I gladly turn. ^ 
3 Sir, it is the best bill on which Congress ever act- t- 
3 ed, for it annuls all past compromises with slavery ^ 
:: and makes any future compromise impossible, t 
^ Thus, it puts freedom j nd slavery face to face, and t 
^ bids them grapple. Who can doubt the result ? t 
^ It opens wid : the door of the future, when at last ^ 
^ there will really be a North, and the slave power ^ 
^ will be broken. Everywhere within the sphere of E 
Congress, the great Northern hammer will descend ^ 
to smite the wrong and the irresistible cry will 
break forth : " No more slave States I '' 

Thus, sir, standing at the very grave of free- 
^ dom, in Nebraska and Kansas, I lift myself to the 

^ vision of that happy resurrection by which free- 1 
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dom will be assured, not only in these Territories, 
but everywhere under the National Crovernment. 
More clearly than ever before, I^now penetrate the 
great future, when slavery must disappear. Proud 
ly I discern the flag of my country as it ripples in ^ 
every breeze, at last in reahty as in name, the flag : 
of freedom- -undoubted, pure, irresistible. Am I : 
not right, then, in calling this bill the best on 
^ which Congress ever acted ? Sorrowfully T bend ^ 
^ before the wrong you commit. Joyfully I welcome ^ 
the promises of the future. ^ 



iarrilnrinl iau^rnors. 



Nanie. When Sworn In. ^ 

A. H. Reeder, Governor, July 7, 1854. j: 

Daniel Woodson, Acting Gov Aug. 16, 1855. ^ 

Wilson Shannon, Gov Sept. 7, 1855. p 

Daniel Woodson, Acting Gov Aug. 18, 1856. \ 

John W. Geary, (jOv Sept. it, 1856. ^ 

Daniel Woodson, Actmg Gov March 12, 1857. X- 

: Fred P. Stanton, Acting Gov April 16, 185}. t 

\ Robert J. Walker, Gov May 27, 1857. \ 

^ Fred P. Stanton, Acting Gov Nov. 16, ^857. ^ 

^ James W. Denver, Acting Gov Dec. 21, 1857. y_ 

i3 James W. Denver, Gov Mav 12, 1858. ^ 

3 Hugh S. Walsh, Acting Gov Oct. 10, 1858. \ 

^ Samuel Medary, Gov Dec. 20,1858.^ 

tGeo. M, Beebe, Acting Gov Dec. 17, i860. P 
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NHine. When Sw ru in. J: 

Charles Pobinson Feb. 9, i86r. E 

Thomas Carney ..Jan. 12,1863.^ 

^Samuel J.Crawford Jan. 9, 1865. t 

^ Nehemiah Green.... Nov, 4, 1868. t 

^ James M. Harvey Jan. 1 1, 1869. ;: 

H Thomas A. Osborn Jan. 13, 1873. t 

^ George T. Anthonv Ian. 8, iSyj-t 

^ John P. St. lohn...'. "lan. 8, 1879. l 

: George VV.'Glick Jan. 8. 1883.^ 



^ fames H. Lane 1861 — 1866.^ 

j Samuel C. Pomerov 186I — 1873. f 

E. G. Ross .' 1866— 1871. I 

Alexander Caldwell 1871 — 1873.^ 

Robert Crozier 1873 — iS74- ^ 

John J. Ingalls 1873 — 1879- f 

James M. Harvev 1874 — 1877.^ 

Preston B. Plumb : i877--i883.^ 

John J. Ingalls 1879 — 1885. t 



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i The State debt $1,181,975^ 

^ Aggregate County debts 8,036,736^ 

^ Aggregate Township debts 2,250,347 t 

1 Aggregate City debts 2.102,459^ 

^ Aggregate School District debts 2.082,475 t 



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The State debt is about $ t .00 apiece for the 
population. The entire indebtedness — State, 
County, City, Township and School iJistrict — will 
not reach quite $15.00 for each person in the 
State. 



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ASSESSMENT OF MARCH 1, 1882. 



Taxable acres in cultivation 7,831,179 

Taxable acres not in cultivation 17,095,374 



Total taxable acres 24,926,553 

Average value per acre $3-^^ 

Total value taxable lands $96,741,025 

3 Total value town lots 26,203,733 : 

: Total value personal property 38,087,359 

^ Total value 3,701 miles of railroad... 25,088,156 I 
l " ' $186^78,738 I 

^ The lands are worth about $90.00 for each ^ 
::j member of the population ; the town lots nearly ^ 
$25.00; the personal property about $35.00; and t 
the railroad over $20.00. We own therefore in ^ 
Kansas about $175.00 for each man, woman and t 
^ child, and we owe only $15.00, or about 8.4 per ^ 
1, cent. t 

^ These figures are too low because the above t 
^ valuation is the basis of assessment for taxes, I 
A which is always much below real value. t 

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James N.Noteware, appointed by Gov,, Mar. 1, '58 
S. W. Greer, elected by the people, Dec. 2, '58 
John C. Douglas, elected by the people, Jan. 7, '61 

Saints ■— When Sworn In . 

VVm. R. (;riffith Feb. 9, 1861 

S. M. Thori> Feb. 12, 1862 

Isaac T. Goodnow ....Jan. 12, 1863 

Peter McVicar 'fan. 14, 1867 

H. I). MrCartv . Jan. 9, 1871 

John Fniscr.....' fan. 10, 1875 

Allen B. Lemmon Jan. 12, 1879 

H. C. Speer }an. 9, 1881 



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<;ities. 

Topeka, - - 
Leavenworth, 
Atchison, - 
Liwrence, 
Wyandotte, 
Emporia, 
Wichita, - 
Fort Scott. - 
Parsons, - 
Ottawa, - - 
Kansas City, 
Oswego, - 
Salina, - - 



21,562. 
18,766 
16.658 
10,398 
8.677 
6^00 

5^779 
5,689 

5^567 
4.463 
4.300 
3,048 
3,0 1 8 



ConntieK. 

Shawnee. - 
Leavenworth, 
Atchison, - 
Labette, - 
Wyandotte, - 
Cherokee, 
Douglas, - 
Osage, - - 
Cowley, 
Bourbon, 
Crawford, - 
Sedgwick, 
Butler, 



- 34.137 
31,068 
28,798 

25.347 

- 23.236 
23,232 

- 22,707 
20,727 

- 20,508 
20,159 

- '9.417 
19,166 

- 18,661 



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CouDty, State, t- 

Nemaha, Mikh Cows 14,557 433,372 t 

Greenwood, Cattle 30,918 971,116^ 

~3 Cowley, Sheep , 51,654 980,767^ 

^ Brown, Hogs 46,428 1,228,583 

^Pottawatomie, Horses 10,217 398,678 f 

McPherson, Wheat, bu.... 2,739,412 35,734,846 

Marshall, Corn, bu 4,899,900 157,005,722 

McPherson Oats,bu 908,010 21,946,284 I 



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WINTER WHEAT, 



■^ State Average, 23,16 bushels per acre, f 

^ Butler, - - - 26 Dickinson, - - 26 [ 
3 McPherson, - - 26 Saline, - - - - 26 f 



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^ State Average, 35.34 bushels per acre, 

I Marshal], - - - 50 Riley, - - - - 50 



:^ OATS, 

q State Average, 41.46 bushels per acre, 

-1 Cowley, - - - 50 Marshall, - - - 50 

1 Johnson, - - - 50 Wyandotte, - - - 50 ^ 

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^ Number School Districts, 6,393 

j School bonds issued in 1882, - - - $372,354 
] Present bonded indebtedness, - - $ 1 ,706,480 
3 Teachers holding State certificates, - - - 79 
j Teachers holding first gn^de certificates, - H41 
^ Teachers holding second grade certificates, 4,020 t 
; Teachers holding third grade certificates, - 2,540 ^ 

I Male. Fftinale. Total ^ 

^ School population, 184,0^5 172,520 356,615: 

^Pupils enrolled, - 139,031 130,137 269,215: 

\ Average attendance, 81,892 7<>,680 161,572 

i Teachers employed, 3,342 4,808 8,250 ^ 

i RP.CEIPTS. 

^ Bal. with Dist. Treasurer Aug 1, '81, $ 306,419 
^ Amount received fjom County Treas., 1,442,039 
; Am't rec'd from State and Co.' Sch. funds, 270,022 
j Am't received from sale of bonds, - - 357,727 
^ Xm't received from all other sources, - 171,557 
I Total, .... $2,547,764 

EXPKNDITURLS. 

For teachers' wages and supervision, $1,296,256 
i For rents, repairs, fuel and incidentals, - 331,945 
i For libraries and apparatus, _ . - . 27,383 
5 For sites, buildings and farniture. - - 406,984 

^ For all other purposes 131,606 f 

3 Total, - - - - $2,194T74 

3 Bal. with Dist. Treas., Aug 1, 1882, - 353,589 
j Receipts and expenditures balanced, $2,547,764 

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EXCERPTS 

FROM THE 

STJ1TE+ CONSTITUTION, 



Ord.i3:i.a.aace. t 

^ Sec. I. Sections 16 and 36 in every township I 
" are given to common schools. f 

Sec. 2. Seventy-two sections of land are de- 
voted to the State University. > 

Sec. 3- Thirty-six sections of land are granted \ 
^ for the erection of public buildings. ; 

3 Sec. 4. Seventy-two sections of land are \ 
J granted to charitable and benevolent institutions. | 
3 Sec. 6. Five per cent, of proceeds of public 
^ lands in Kansas are devoted to common schools. I 

Sec. 7. Five hundred thousand acres of land I 
are devoted to common schools. I 

Bill o£ Z^ii^la.ts- t 

All men are of equal and inalienable rights. ^ 
All political power inherent in the people. 

5. Right of trial by jury inviolate. 

6. " There shall be no slavery in this State." 

7. " The right to worship God according to 
^ the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed." 

8. No suspension of writ of habeas corj/us 
except in invasion or rebellion. F 

^ 76. No imprisonment for debt except in case t 
^ of fraud. ^ 

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^ • .A-rticle I. EaiecMtLTre. ► 

^ Sec. I. "The Executive department shall con- ^ 
I sist of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary r 
^ of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, I 
A and Superintendent of PubHc Instruction, who I 
3 shall be chosen by the electors of the State at the t 
^ time and place of voting for members of the Leg- E 
A islature, and shall hold thrir offices for the term off 
^ two years from the second Monday in January, t 
^ next after their election, and until their successors t 
9 are elected and (lualitied." t 

^ 3. The Governor shall see that the laws are E 
^ executed. E 

^ 5. He may on extraordinary occasions con- E 
^ vene the Legislature. t 

^ 6. In case of disagreement between the two E 
^ houses in respect to time of adjournment, he may t 
3 adjourn the Legislature. I 

3 7. The pardoning power is vested in him. E 
^ 8. The Governor shall keep the State seal. E 
5 9. All commissions are to be signed l)v thj E 
^ Governor, countersigned by the Secretary of State, t 
^ and sealed with the great seal. E 

II. In case of (lovernor's death, etc., the ^ 
^ Lieutenant Governor becomes Governor. E 

3 12. The Lieutenant Governor presides over E 
i the Senate. t 



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a The Kansas Baptist l 

Is the Organ of the De'ioiniJiation in the State. Kdifed l>y f 

L. H. Hoi/r, Clay Center, Kansas. ^ 

50 C«3a.te a. "STesix. ^ 

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.i^xtxcle XX. XjegplslsLtlTre. 

I. The legislative power is vested in a Senate 
^ (forty members) and a House of Representatives 
^ (one hundred and twenty-five members). 

3. Compensation of members of Legislature : 
is $300 per day and fifteen cents a mile going and : 
returning. 

13. A majority of all members of each house 
shall be necessary to pass a bill. 

14. " Every bill and joint resolution passed by 
the House of Representatives f»nd Senate, shall 

3 within two days thereafter, be signed by the pre- 
siding officers, and presented to the Governor; if 
^ he approve it he shall sign it ; but if not he shall 
: return it to the House of Representatives, which ^ 
: shall enter the objections at large upon its journal, E 
and proceed to reconsider the same. If, after t 
such consideration, two-thirds of the members ^ 
elected shall ac^ree to pass the bill or resolution, it ^ 
shallbe sent, with the objections, to the Senate, t 
by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if t 
approved by two-thirds of all the members elected, ^ 
it shall become h law. * * * if any bill shall ^ 
not be returned within three days (^Sundays ex- \. 
cepted) after it shall have been presented to the E 
Governor, it shall become a law in like manner as ^ 
^ if he had signed it, unless the Legislature, by Its \_ 
adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it f 
shall not become a law." ^ 

23. No distinction between males and females p 
in school matters. ^ 

25. Legislature is to meet regularly at the p 

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^ capital on the second Tuesday of January of every t 
^ odd year. t: 

^ -A.rticle III. T-a.d.icia.1. t 

^ I. "The judicial pc^ver of the State shall be t 
^ vested in a Supreme court, District courts, Probate ^ 
A courts. Justices of the Peace, and such other t 
q courts inferior to the Supreme court as may be ^ 
^ l)rovided l)y law.'' ^ 

:; 2. Supreme court consists of one Chief Justice t 
3 and two Associate Justices elected by the people t 
^ for six years (salary $3000.00 per year). (There t 
3 are seventeen judicial districts in the State each ^ 
i with a District Judge elected for four years hold- P 
^ ing a District court in every county within his ju- E 
risdiction.) E 

8. Each county has a Probate Court, consist- 1 
ing of one Judge elected for two years. He has ^ 
jurisdiction over estates of deceased persons, t 
minors, etc. t 

q 9. Two Justices of the Peace for each town- ^ 
^ ship elected for two years. t 

-« -A-xticle I"^. Electioaas. t 

3 T. "All elections by the people shall be by ^ 
^ ballot; and all elections by ihe Legislature shall be t 
^ licd voce."' t 

3 2. General elections occur on the Tuesday E 
^ after the first Monday in November. Township f 
^ elections on first i'uesdav of April. t 
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4 -A-rticle "V. S\a.£frstg-e- P 

^ I. All male citizens of United States or per- t 
3 sons of foreign birth who have declared their inten- t 

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^ tion of becoming such, shall be entitled to vote if 
H they are twenty-one years old, and have resided in 
3 the State six months, and in the to\7nship or ward 
3 thirty days before election, ^ 

.i^rticle 'VI- EsL\3.ca.tioia.- F 

I. A State Superintendent of Public Instruc" ^ 
tion shall have supervision of common schoo^ ^ 
^ funds and educational interests. A County Super- ^ 
^ intendent elected for two years performs similar t 
^ work in the county, t 

8. '■'■ No rehgious sect shall ever control any ^ 
part of the common school or university funds of ^ 
the State." E 

9. The State Superintendent, Secretary oft 
State and Attorney General constitute a Board of 

^ Commissioners for school funds. 

,A.rticle T7"XI. IF'-u.'blxc lan-stit-u-tioxis. 

T. Institutions for the insane, blind and 
deaf and dumb, and such other benevolent insti- 
tutions as the public good may require, shall be 
supported by the State. Trustees ap^^ointed by 
the Governor. 



THE EDUCATIONIST. 

This leading educational journal of the W«8t. containing a z 
Department of Didaciics. and pretienting the pictures of several p 
prominent educatjrs each year, is published monthly at Topeka 
at $1.25 per year in advance. QKO. W. HOSS. Editor. 

"It has become the expression of the best educational ^ 
thought and progress of the d«y.''— [New England Journal of 
Education. Bos-ton. 

"■ The Educationist is already in a'"lvance of any periodical ^ 
of itf character ever published in Kan!ias."—[AmericHn Young t 
Polks. 

" It has no superior.'' — [Ex-State Superintendent McCarty. 

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:i Beautiful Hanging Lampis, Decorated Dinner Sets and Chamber 

I Set8, iilegant Silverware— best made, 

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I 'P^.llJ^ A lJ]j/iJ\. -.^all home print/' unadulterated, 

I Republican Newspaper. Official County Paper, 

1 The Dispatch Priming House took the ribbon for Fiin- 

i Job Worh at the Bismakck au^ Kansas State Fairs 

T in 1881. 

- ^tiO no A n A V "^-f^^ Dis2mt4;h Hotels a three- 

I ipZi,\J\J A VIM. e^ory Brick, with 140 feet South 

s and East firontage. Built and furnished expressly for 

5 * CojlMEKCIAIi MSN. 

I $2.00 (orlei^s) AN HOIR.— «'^i,'S"iK<«* 

3 Teams, dogs, gons, drivers and game furnished Eastern 

I Hunting Parties. Especially Equipped for Local and 

i Transient Trade. 

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^ Playing at all times t 

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i OF TOPEKA, KANSAS. 

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